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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    There was no other appropriate thread to post this but I thought others might enjoy it, too. A really interesting article about a weird race called the Dipsea. Look for the part about who has run it in the past ;)

    Dipsea: A Trail Race Where ‘You’re Either the Hunter or the Hunted’   https://nyti.ms/2HLIeKZ
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,668
    edited June 2018
    oftenreading said:
    There was no other appropriate thread to post this but I thought others might enjoy it, too. A really interesting article about a weird race called the Dipsea. Look for the part about who has run it in the past ;)

    Dipsea: A Trail Race Where ‘You’re Either the Hunter or the Hunted’   https://nyti.ms/2HLIeKZ
    Awesome - I want to see a documentary on this race. Speaking of which, there is an amazing documentary about that Barkley Marathon, which also has some crazy rules and is no normal race - I highly recommend the film! It's called The Barkley Marathons: The Race that Eats Its Young (2014). Nobody even managed to finish it this year, which isn't uncommon!
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Ahh, Muir Woods.  We used to go there when I was a kid.  Oftentimes the place would be all but deserted and so still and quiet except for an occasional song bird and the breeze blowing through the tops of the redwoods.  Now days you need a reservation to even get into the place.   Kind of sad, really.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,668

    Lions eat 'rhino poachers' on South African game reserve

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44728507


    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    PJ_Soul said:

    Lions eat 'rhino poachers' on South African game reserve

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44728507


    This is justice:
    "At least two suspected rhino poachers have been mauled to death and eaten by lions on a South African game reserve, officials say."

    This is disgusting:
    "There has been a rise in poaching in Africa in recent years, to feed growing demand for rhino horn in parts of Asia.

    In China, Vietnam and elsewhere, rhino horn is erroneously believed to have aphrodisiac qualities."


    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Kat
    Kat Posts: 4,961
    Amazing.

    Falling down,...not staying down
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Kat said:
    Amazing.

    Oh yeah!  Fantastic!  :clap:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • letsongsprotest
    letsongsprotest Novi, MI Posts: 552
    edited July 2018
    Kat said:
    Amazing.

    Amazing.

    This is fantastic.  Thanks for posting Kat.

    Its nice to see people doing good...
    There's a trapdoor in the sun.
  • RunIntoTheRain
    RunIntoTheRain Texas Posts: 1,032
    letsongsprotest said:
    Kat said:
    Amazing.

    Amazing.

    This is fantastic.  Thanks for posting Kat.

    Its nice to see people doing good...
    That was so great to watch!! Thank you. 
  • Kat
    Kat Posts: 4,961
    Everyone can be heroic. Have a beautiful week, everyone.




    Falling down,...not staying down
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Kat said:
    Everyone can be heroic. Have a beautiful week, everyone.




    Awesome!

    Here's fine companion article to the one you posted above, Kat, about the guy saving the whale:


    In an operation that lasted for five days, the crew of the Sea Shepherd ship, Sam Simon, has successfully completed the retrieval of an illegal gillnet, abandoned by the poaching vessel, Thunder. The outlawed fishing gear was located at 62? 16’ South 081? 14 East, inside the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) area of management, in the Southern Ocean.

    The thirty-strong crew, made up of volunteers from fifteen nations, worked 24 hours a day to retrieve the illegal gillnet, which measured a total of 25 kilometres in length.



    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • RunIntoTheRain
    RunIntoTheRain Texas Posts: 1,032
    Kat said:
    Everyone can be heroic. Have a beautiful week, everyone.




    So great. If only we could find a way to harness and channel that instinctual human goodness into a large daily effort towards a targeted goal. Imagine the good that could be done. 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    RunIntoTheRain said:
    Kat said:
    Everyone can be heroic. Have a beautiful week, everyone.




    So great. If only we could find a way to harness and channel that instinctual human goodness into a large daily effort towards a targeted goal. Imagine the good that could be done. 
    :plus_one:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,471
    Kat said:
    Everyone can be heroic. Have a beautiful week, everyone.




    Fuck. This made me cry in my office. Haha. Had run to the bathroom before people saw me. haha.
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    RunIntoTheRain said:
    Kat said:
    Everyone can be heroic. Have a beautiful week, everyone.




    So great. If only we could find a way to harness and channel that instinctual human goodness into a large daily effort towards a targeted goal. Imagine the good that could be done. 
    Fucking awesome ... 
    Give Peas A Chance…
  • Kat
    Kat Posts: 4,961
    Poor baby...and determined humans....have to love that.




    Falling down,...not staying down
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Kat said:
    Poor baby...and determined humans....have to love that.




    Sweet!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • JC29856
    JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    "This one is for whomever wants it"

    Nobody knows what the fuck is going on. We’re a bunch of hairless apes on a spinning rock in space, and we only know the stories that we’ve been told by the people who got here before us. We come out as clueless little babies, then when we get bigger we learn some fancy words and how to open a bag of chips, but underneath all the data we add on top of our fresh baby minds there’s still the same cluelessness we started out with. The process of sorting out the true and useful data from the false and unhelpful is confusing, difficult, and prone to error. So people tend to just listen to the most confident-sounding voice in the room; the one who steps forward and says “I know what’s going on, follow me.”

    https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/how-to-own-life-like-a-fucking-wizard-20c4b909ae0

  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,668
    What a wonderful lady. :)


    'You bring joy and happiness to our organization every single day'

    Bottle collector honoured for keeping the environment clean — and giving money to cancer charity



    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    JC29856 said:
    "This one is for whomever wants it"

    Nobody knows what the fuck is going on. We’re a bunch of hairless apes on a spinning rock in space, and we only know the stories that we’ve been told by the people who got here before us. We come out as clueless little babies, then when we get bigger we learn some fancy words and how to open a bag of chips, but underneath all the data we add on top of our fresh baby minds there’s still the same cluelessness we started out with. The process of sorting out the true and useful data from the false and unhelpful is confusing, difficult, and prone to error. So people tend to just listen to the most confident-sounding voice in the room; the one who steps forward and says “I know what’s going on, follow me.”

    https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/how-to-own-life-like-a-fucking-wizard-20c4b909ae0

    I don't really understand why this was posted on "Good News", but here it is and here I will respond.

    What do you think of George Carlin?  Pretty much all the accusations made of Maher in the article could be made of Carlin.  I don't think the problem with Maher or Carlin or any "pundit" is that their voices are too confident or that they sound too convincing or that they are opinionated- I am all of those things.  Most of us here are.  No, the problem is that far too many people have lost (or never gained) the ability to think critically for themselves or possess some healthy skepticism.  I don't agree with every thing Maher (or even Carlin, for that matter) but I like that people like him/them engage my thinking and provide a perspective.  Capitol A perspective not THE ONLY perspective.  Rather than rant about how clever Maher is (and he surely is!) let's talk about how too many people are not discerning in their listening or critically thinking in their beliefs.

    PJ_Soul said:
    What a wonderful lady. :)


    'You bring joy and happiness to our organization every single day'

    Bottle collector honoured for keeping the environment clean — and giving money to cancer charity



    Now that is what I call "good news"!  :smile:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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